Synonyms for brazen
ˈbreɪ zənbrazen

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1. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective

   unrestrained by convention or propriety

   "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

   Synonyms:
   brazen-faced, flip, meretricious, audacious, gimcrack, loud, brassy, flashy, intrepid, fearless, hardy, bodacious, venturous, daring, cheap, trashy, venturesome, brave, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, unfearing, bald, snotty-nosed, tawdry, brasslike, impudent, barefaced, bald-faced, dauntless, flash, tacky

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

2. brazenverb

   made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

   Synonyms:
   audacious, bald-faced, brazen-faced, insolent, brassy, barefaced, bodacious

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

3. brazenverb

   face with defiance or impudence

   "brazen it out"

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

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1. brazenadjective

   Synonyms:
   made of brass

2. brazenadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, BRAZEN-FACED

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1. List of paraphrases for "brazen":

   shameless, blatant, impudent, rude, flagrant, barefaced, audacious, insolent, cocky, snotty

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1. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin:

   The United States will not permit Iran's increasingly brazen abuse of the international financial system. The global community must remain vigilant against Iran's deceptive efforts to provide financial support to its terrorist proxies.

2. Jim Kenney:

   Words alone can not express the outrage, hurt, and sadness that all of us feel. Dedicated, passionate, and driven -- Tiffany Fletcher was just doing Tiffany Fletcher job outside Mill Creek Rec Center in West Philadelphia when -- in a brazen and unconscionable act of violence -- she was struck by crossfire in the middle of the day.

3. Kristie Small:

   I'm 100 % positive that is why I got fired, i think that is a bad state of affairs when someone in his position can be so brazen and so bold to do something like this.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   When banks plead guilty to a crime, federal agencies must do more than look the other way, the SEC has already granted waivers to each of these banks without any detailed explanation, but it is not too late for the Department of Labor to hold a public hearing before it decides that such brazen lawbreakers can be trusted managing workers' retirement accounts.

5. House Democrats:

   This information comes on the heels of reporting that OSC is also looking into Secretary Pompeo's stated commitment to rush out more of Hillary Clinton's emails by Election Day and as the Secretary has misused State Department resources on his speech tour of swing states, as we get closer to both this year's election and Secretary Pompeo own inevitable return to electoral politics, Secretary Pompeo has grown even more brazen in misusing the State Department and the taxpayer dollars that fund State Department as vehicles for the Administration's, and Secretary Pompeo own, political ambitions.